An Analytical Study of the Method of Eliminating Grief in the Salla Sutta

Abstract

This research paper has objectives: 1) to study the method of eliminating grief in the Tipiṭaka,

2) to study the structures and essences of Salla-Sutta, and 3) to analyze the method of eliminating grief in the Salla-Sutta. It is documentary research. Analyze and present descriptively.

                 The results of the study were as follow:1) in the Tipiṭaka, it talks about grief from the separation of the beloved person. Teach to know the truth of the nature. In the Buddha’s time, He brought the method of  eliminating grief from the separation as Paṭācārā who lost a member of her family, and the losing of Kīsāgotamī’s sons. He used the Dhamma to apply to the mind to rescue the sorrow. And apply Dhamma principles to of  eliminating grief, the facts which should be again and again contemplated, Aphinhapaccavekha, the Three Characteristics, the Four Noble Truths, etc. 2) the Salla Sutta is a sutta about the story of a layperson who was grief because his son died. Then, the Lord Buddha said in this sutta that the lives of living beings in this world are going to die, there is no way out of this. The sorrow of separation from the departed one is stressful, it has no benefit but only increases suffering and harms the body and mind. The wise man should withdraw the arrow of your own desires. eliminating grief. Be wise and see the truth. Ordinary knowledge. 3)Analyze about Loss of a beloved person and the use of subterfuges to eliminating grief with “Yonisomanasikāra” Contains the principles of  the Three Characteristics and the Four Noble Truths, with the goal of eliminating and suppressing the grief of losing a loved one.